With the introduction of template-based test creation, you can build tests with a new approach. It reduces setup time while maintaining full control over test structure, parameters, and reference values. Consequently, it allows your lab team to tailor each test precisely to your laboratory’s workflows.

What’s new?

• Pre-built test templates to help you get started quickly.
• Automatic pre-filling of key test fields, parameters, units, and reference values.
• Full customization after applying a template.
• Create tests from scratch for complete control when templates aren’t needed.
• Change log tracking, so every update is recorded and transparent.

Full customization after template selection

When a template is chosen, key test details such as name, code, sample type, parameters, and reference value are automatically pre-filled to help you run in seconds. In fact, templates are just the starting point. Once applied, every part of the test can be fully customized. You can edit fields, add new parameters, remove existing ones, and adjust reference values to match your exact requirements. At the same time, you can also build fully custom tests without using a template at all.

Create tests from scratch for full control

If built-in templates aren’t needed, you can build tests entirely from the ground up to match your exact requirements. This option allows you to define all test details, configure parameters, set units and reference values, and control how each parameter behaves. Creating tests from scratch is ideal for specialized, custom, or uncommon lab tests. As a result, your laboratory gains maximum flexibility without any predefined constraints.

Built for reliability and transparency

It’s essential that all actions performed on a test are automatically recorded in the change log. It records a clear history of updates and adjustments to every created test. Built-in validation rules also help ensure that tests are properly configured and activated. These safeguards prevent errors, reduce rework, and maintain consistent, high-quality workflows across your laboratory.

Why this update matters

The lab test functionality extension brings together consistency and flexibility within improved experience. Pre-built templates help standardize common tests, while full customization allows laboratories to adapt quickly to new requirements or specialized testing needs. Whether you’re updating existing test templates or creating entirely new tests, the test creation experience adapts to your lab’s processes. LinkHMS can empower your lab to work more efficiently and confidently every day.

This new functionality strengthens test management and provides a scalable foundation for reliable and adaptable lab operations. It enables your lab teams to perform tests more efficiently as requirements change.

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It‘s easier than your clinic might expect. It starts the moment the doctor marks a medication for inpatient administration during the prescribing process. We haven’t changed the prescription process; instead, we’ve enhanced it by adding new capabilities. The LinkHMS system automatically imports prescriptions into the drug administration chart and provides a ready-to-use workflow for doctors and nurses to begin tracking and logging doses immediately.

Open the drug administration chart

You can locate the chart in the patient’s EMR, visits, or admissions, now added as a new sub-tab under the prescriptions. It helps your clinic centralize all medication activities in a single, real-time view. Whether a patient is receiving scheduled intravenous therapy or a one-time pain reliever, every medication can be administered with the included functionality of LinkHMS.

Locate the required medication

The drug administration chart helps cover everything related to medication history. It is easy to navigate using the medicine search bar and status filters to quickly access the relevant records. To improve usability, LinkHMS automatically generates medication cards for new prescriptions, schedules the administration period, and tracks all associated dosing activity. Additionally, it has a separate log for non-prescribed medications to record one-off or symptom-driven doses for accurate record-keeping and oversight.

Log the prescribed or non-prescribed medication dose

When it’s time to record a medication event, the nurse or doctor simply uses the log dose button on the relevant card. Whether the dose is from a formal prescription or a non-prescribed need, it takes a few clicks to log the medication and assign the appropriate status (administered or not administered). The dose appears instantly in the drug administration chart, with the user who logged it, timestamp, dosage, status, and any accompanying notes. Additionally, the medication card indicates the number of administrations completed relative to the day’s expected total (e.g., 2 out of 3).

Exclude medications when needed

It sometimes happens that treatment plans may change, or certain medications are logged incorrectly or no longer required. Therefore, LinkHMS also provides controlled exclusion functionality to adjust medication data without losing visibility. Based on role permissions, doctors can exclude entire prescriptions or individual dose records, while nurses can exclude only individual dose entries. Excluded items are highlighted in red and automatically removed from daily dose calculations, so medication progress always remains accurate.

Review administration records

Reviewing records can be both thorough and quick, with easy access to each medication card. Doctors and nurses can view any record in full, while past or excluded dose entries are displayed in read-only mode to preserve data integrity. Assigned statuses and color-coding help you scan daily activity, identify flagged entries, and understand overall progress. Additionally, you can follow progress not only day-to-day but also across the entire prescription period, with a calendar-style view that supports multiple dates in the full medication chart. 

Interpret medication statuses and color coding 

LinkHMS turns medication tracking into an instantly readable experience through smart statuses and intuitive color coding. As soon as doses are logged with the relevant status, the medication card status also updates in real time based on prescription rules and recorded activity. You can easily distinguish statuses (In Progress, Completed, Flagged, and Excluded), each colored with a specific color. The same color-coding is used across all medication records to quickly identify delays or issues that need clinicians’ attention.

Medication management doesn’t have to be complicated or time-consuming. LinkHMS provides your clinic personnel with a practical, easy-to-use chart that keeps medication records complete, up to date, and accessible at all times. Whether working at a workstation or on a mobile device, doctors and nurses can respond quickly to changes and ensure every dose is administered correctly.

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The new pregnancy module in LinkHMS was built to preserve that timeline. It provides a structured way to start a pregnancy record, automatically track gestational progress, document care in real time, and maintain a complete pregnancy history for future clinical decisions.

Designed for continuity from the first entry to the outcome

The module supports a simple goal: help the care team quickly view the current pregnancy status, update records without extra steps, and keep related information together throughout the pregnancy. It offers your healthcare team a more transparent, connected workflow for prenatal care.

That means clinicians can:

• Create a pregnancy record in minutes
• See gestational age updated automatically at each visit
• Document antenatal assessments and ultrasound findings in a consistent format
• Attach ultrasound images and reports where they belong
• Finalize the pregnancy with a clear outcome and a locked record
• Review past pregnancies easily when planning care

Step 1 – Start the pregnancy record with a single clinical anchor

The workflow begins in the patient chart under the Pregnancy tab. When a patient has no recorded pregnancies, the tab remains intentionally minimal to make it clear where to start.

Pregnancy begins with one required detail: the Last Menstrual Period (LMP). Once LMP is entered, LinkHMS immediately calculates gestational age and estimated due date. This is the point where the record stops being a static form and becomes an active clinical timeline.

To make that status visible across the chart, a pregnancy indicator appears next to the patient’s name, showing the current gestational age at a glance.

Step 2 – Keep gestational context current at every visit

With the pregnancy record created, the next challenge is ensuring the information remains accurate over time. Gestational age changes continuously, and recalculating it manually at each visit is both repetitive and error-prone.

LinkHMS addresses this by updating gestational age automatically based on the visit date. Each time the patient returns, the chart reflects the right gestational stage without any additional work from the care team.

If the pregnancy exceeds the estimated due date, the indicator changes to indicate that the pregnancy is overdue. This keeps the timeline clinically meaningful rather than merely informational.

Step 3 – Capture care in a format that matches how pregnancy is managed

Once the gestational context is in place, the workflow naturally shifts to documentation. The module provides focused sections that mirror how pregnancy care is delivered, so clinicians can document what matters without scattering details across unrelated notes.

Pregnancy Info – the pregnancy profile

Pregnancy Info stores key pregnancy details in one place and supports updates over time, so the record reflects changes in clinical assessment, risk, or responsibility. It is designed to remain usable throughout the pregnancy as information becomes available.

From there, most patients move into routine monitoring, which is where the next section becomes essential.

Mother Check-Up – a structured checkup timeline

Mother Check-Up is built for repeated antenatal assessments. Instead of recording those values and observations across multiple visits, LinkHMS turns them into a clear timeline of recorded entries. This makes it easier to review progression and identify trends when clinical decisions depend on what changed and when.

As pregnancy care progresses, ultrasound becomes a key part of confirming fetal development and guiding management, and the module transitions naturally into that documentation.

Ultrasound – findings, multi-fetus tracking, and attachments

Ultrasound documentation often includes both structured findings and supporting files. LinkHMS supports recording ultrasound data for the mother and for each fetus when pregnancies involve more than one fetus, while keeping the record organized and consistent.

Because ultrasound is frequently accompanied by images and reports, clinicians can attach supporting files directly within the pregnancy record. These attachments remain accessible later and are also available through Imaging for easier review.

Step 4 – Finalize the pregnancy and preserve a reliable clinical record

Every pregnancy record needs a clear endpoint. Without it, records remain open-ended and less useful as historical references. 

The module includes a Finalize Pregnancy tab that records the outcome and completes the pregnancy timeline. Finalization is intentionally explicit and confirmed, because it marks the point where the record becomes part of the patient’s long-term history.

Once finalized, the pregnancy record becomes locked. This protects clinical accuracy and ensures that the historical record remains stable and reliable.

Step 5 – Pregnancy history becomes the reference point for future care

The final outcome is not the end of the module’s value. In many cases, its most important contribution appears later, when a clinician needs to understand prior pregnancies quickly and confidently. Pregnancy history provides an overview of recorded pregnancies with key dates and outcomes, allowing clinicians to reference obstetric history without searching through unrelated encounters.

What the antenatal care module enables

This LinkHMS module supports a complete pregnancy workflow:

• Start a pregnancy record from LMP
• Automatically track gestational age across visits
• Maintain key pregnancy details in a single profile
• Document antenatal checkups as a readable timeline
• Record ultrasound findings with support for multiple fetuses
• Attach ultrasound images and reports within the pregnancy record
• Finalize outcomes and lock the record for long-term reliability
• Review pregnancy history quickly when planning care

A practical improvement in day-to-day prenatal workflow

This release is focused on making prenatal care documentation easier to follow and harder to fragment. By connecting the early pregnancy anchor, ongoing gestational tracking, structured documentation, and final outcomes into one workflow, the pregnancy module helps clinical teams maintain continuity across the full pregnancy timeline and make decisions with stronger context.

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Our latest release focuses on advancing medication management with the introduction of the new drug administration chart. It provides clinics with a clear and organized way to track every aspect of medication delivery. Your staff can now easily capture doses administered from inpatient prescriptions, log medications given during outpatient visits, or record unprescribed medications when immediate clinical action is required.

The LinkHMS team has also improved the prescriptions tab with the updated dropdown options, new fields for more detailed entries, and full integration with the administration chart. These updates can help your team stay organized and connected to manage prescriptions and medications from start to finish. 

Doctors continue to create prescriptions in the same way as before through the prescriptions tab. The new step is the option to mark a medication as prescribed for inpatient administration. When a doctor selects the checkbox marking a necessary drug, that medication is automatically added to the patient’s drug administration chart.

The system separates medications into two card types: prescribed medications, shown in standard medication cards, and unprescribed medications, displayed in the non-prescribed medication log. It allows clinic personnel to follow the doctor’s prescription and log medicine that does not require a prescription but must be recorded for accurate patient care. 

From there, they can log each dose given, track statuses, and maintain a complete administration record. The drug administration functionality is also fully mobile-friendly and optimized for on-the-go use. For added convenience, clinic staff can use this functionality either on mobile devices while on the move or at nursing stations using desktops. It supports recording doses in real time, reduces delays, and ensures that logged records always reflect the most current information.

Another killer feature provides a clear view of drug administration statuses, showing how each medication is being managed. Automatic status updates bring a new level of transparency and control to medication workflows. Medical personnel can instantly and accurately determine whether a medication is being actively administered, has reached its scheduled end, or has been intentionally excluded. 

Administration covers clear, meaningful statuses such as in progress, flagged, completed, or excluded to indicate the medication’s state. You can also use the status buttons as filters. It automatically updates the chart to show only the medication cards that match the selected status. Besides, color coding makes medication progress easy to read: green for on-track dosing, amber for issues needing attention, and red for excluded prescriptions.

We’ve also implemented the full medications chart functionality, which displays a complete table of all doses logged by staff across the prescription period. This view compiles every entry submitted through the log dose feature, providing a clear, comprehensive record of medication activity from start to finish. The same color-coding is applied here as well, making it easy to spot not administered and excluded doses.

The LinkHMS team worked to offer a more complete medication management experience. Updated prescriptions and the new drug administration chart will now support a straightforward prescribing process and a full medication history. These improvements can add more structure and reliability to your medication processes.

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